Jules Bernard had 20 points and nine rebounds, and first-place UCLA survived a scare from last-place Washington to win 81-76 on Saturday for its sixth straight victory.

The Washington men’s basketball team has been hide-your-eyes hideous in 2020-21, and the scary part is that it’s hard to see it getting much better.

Isaiah Mobley scored a season-high 18 points, Evan Mobley added 17 points and Southern California routed Washington 95-68 on Thursday night.

As a handful of contenders pursue the Pac-12 regular-season title, a clear frontrunner has emerged in the race for last place.

Andre Kelly scored 22 points on 11-for-13 shooting and California beat Washington 84-78 for its first Pac-12 Conference win of the season on Saturday.

Ziaire Williams picked up the second triple-double in Stanford program history, Jaiden Delaire scored 21 points and the Cardinal defeated Washington 91-75 Thursday night.

From his home – over 3,000 miles away in Boca Raton, Fla. – Andy Russo feels a strange kind of kinship with Washington men’s basketball coach Mike Hopkins.

The Washington men’s basketball team’s game against Arizona State that was scheduled for Saturday has been postponed due to COVID-19 developments within the ASU program, the Pac-12 announced.

Bennedict Mathurin led a balanced scoring attack with 13 points off the bench, Jordan Brown added 12 points, and Arizona routed Washington 80-53 on Thursday night.

The Pac-12 occupied a precarious perch on the college basketball landscape as it transitions to conference-only play this week — and that was before news came late Tuesday morning that Arizona had self-imposed a postseason ban for “serious lapses in judgment” by staff members.

Any chance the Washington men’s basketball team has at salvaging a season that already seems lost depends on what happens over the next week.

During his four-year tenure with the Washington men’s basketball team, coach Mike Hopkins hasn’t lost many nonconference games at Alaska Airlines Arena.

Chris Duarte and Eugene Omoruyi scored 14 points apiece, Eric Williams Jr. added 14, and Oregon held on to beat rival Washington 74-71 on Saturday night.

Washington men’s basketball coach Mike Hopkins spoke publicly Tuesday for the first time since the university announced Husky star Nahziah Carter had been suspended following university investigations upholding two sexual assault allegations.

SEATTLE – For the first time since 2002 – when Lorenzo Romar took over – the Washington men’s basketball team has started a season 0-3.

SEATTLE – Nahziah Carter’s career with the Washington Huskies is over.

Alfonso Plummer scored 21 points, Timmy Allen added 14, and Utah used an 18-0 run midway through the second half to pull away for a 76-62 win over Washington on Thursday in the Pac-12 Conference opener for both schools.

LAS VEGAS – Jock Perry scored 21 points, Arinze Chidom had eight points and 12 rebounds and UC Riverside beat Washington 57-42 on Tuesday for coach Mike Magpayo’s first victory with the Highlanders.

Washington men’s coach Mike Hopkins said more than once Sunday that this basketball season is “all about the kids” – providing them what he called “a sense of normalcy” when the rest of their lives are anything but normal.